3-3-0

This course introduces students to some of the more influential theoretical perspectives that have shaped the viewer's understanding of film over the past century. The course will begin with the realist-formalist debates of classical theory and proceed to examine the impact of literary criticism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism on contemporary film theory. Films from different genres and national cinemas are used to illustrate the various approaches to interpreting and evaluating cinema.



Professor Woodward